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=Chapter 8=

The War for Independence

 * Continental Congress met in may 1775

1. The Second Continental Congress

 * The congress asked colonies to send soldiors to Masssachusetts[[image:http://api.ning.com/files/OS5NJWLR74*O85kQeTyggP*5fpwPrhiItA*DI9AE5SC2KksGPAqt0owFqXFyeHMB7P98hlpXODxpLPvwHwxufooVuT6oDQL6/Congress_voting_independence.jpg width="438" height="263" caption="The Continental Congress"]]

2. The Continental Army

 * George Washington left Philidelphia to take change of his army

3. The British Advantage

 * On ﻿﻿June 17, 1775 was one of the first battles


 * The British had 50,000 soldiors and General Washington had 10,000 soldiors at one time

1. The Continental Army

 * With little money and not much training, the Contintentals went to war with the most powerful army in the world

The First Steps

 * On June 7, 1776 Richard Henry Lee gave a speech to the congress


 * Only 33 years old Thomas Jefferson was a leader of the patroits

Writing The Declaration

 * Thomas Jefferson had to convince people that the cause of independence was right fighting for


 * The British had refused to listen to what the colonists said


 * The congress spent two days talking about the declaration on July 4 1776, the colonists had independence

Lesson 3

 * After the Declaration of Independence was signed people decided they would support the rebelling of the British king


 * Some chose to be neutral taking neither side

Women and War

 * Mary Ludwing Hays earned the name Molly Pitchen by bringing water to the troop during the long, hot battle of Monmouth fought on June 1778


 * Many women in the colonies took part in the movement to gain freedom


 * Women also took part in the fighting like Mary Ludwing Hays traveled with her husband after he enlisted the Continental Army


 * The **United States Declaration of Independence** is a statement adopted by the [|Continental Congress] on July 4, 1776, which announced that the [|thirteen American colonies] then at war with [|Great Britain] were now independent states, and thus no longer a part of the [|British Empire].

Samuel's Choice

 * Samuel Abnanam was 14 and was held as a slave in Brooklyn, NewYork


 * In the summer of 1776, General George Washington and the Continental army were forced to retreat from Brooklyn as the British approached


 * They were traveling to the Manhatin


 * They wore blue uniforms



= Lesson 5 =

Victory and Independence

 * In 1777 Von Steuben reported that Washington took on the job of drilling the Continental army
 * In 1778 the soldiors were training and marching well
 * On October 17, 1777 the British lost to Continental soldiors by General Horatio Gates


 * Haiti was a French colony in the Carabeen


 * With help of the Loyalists, the British army captured Charleston, South Carolina in 1780


 * For several weeks Benedict Arnold, a former Continental army officer attaked colonial towns in virginia for the British